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Because of the law of budgets: use it or you'll get less next year. We have a few streets here which have been undergoing "repairs" pretty much constantly for t
by throwaway-1209 9y ago
Because of the law of budgets: use it or you'll get less next year. We have a few streets here which have been undergoing "repairs" pretty much constantly for the past decade. They aren't getting wider or better, perfectly serviceable pavement gets torn up again and again, several times a year. Why? Hell if I know. The most plausible explanation is someone needs to "use up the budget".
- tgjsrkghruksd 9y agoYou must live in a funny-mirror version of my world. I'm in the pothole belt and there is never enough in the budget to fix all our roads. Yes, for various reasons, sometimes a stretch gets replaced that's in much better condition than other deplorable streets (usually because it coincides with some other development), but the funding is never there to fix all the outstanding urgent problems much less ripping up and redoing good pavement.
- throwaway-1209 9y agoActually same here: there are plenty of potholes elsewhere, but only these few good roads get continually torn up and repaved.
- marcosdumay 9y ago> The most plausible explanation is someone needs to "use up the budget". The only plausible explanation I know is that somebody in gov is friend of somebody on the contracted company.